The life and times of America’s first Jewish baseball star will be the topic of a film screening and discussion Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The event kicks off the fall … Read more

A hybrid network of flood and weather sensors to be installed over the next two months will give Brunswick County emergency managers advance warning about how fast water is rising along critical flood-prone roads in the county.

Seeking better ways to design and conduct clinical trials, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health has established a new Center for Innovative Clinical Trials.

Love. Heartbreak. Revenge. After 400 years, the star-crossed lovers in William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” still fire the collective imagination.

Pregnancy may open a window of vulnerability for developing binge eating disorder, especially for women from lower socio-economic situations, according to a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers and colleagues in Norway.

Public relations research firms KDPaine & Partners and CustomScoop are bringing the most advanced media monitoring and analysis techniques to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with their gift of … Read more

Neurons, or nerve cells, communicate with each other through contact points called synapses. When these connections are damaged, communication breaks down, causing the messages that would normally help our feet push our bike pedals or our mind locate our car … Read more

A genetic mutation could hold clues why some mothers infected with HIV transmit the virus to their babies and others don’t, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Plant biologists at the Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that an autoimmune response, triggered by a small number of genes, can be a barrier to producing a viable … Read more

Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation, will be the keynote presenter at the 75th anniversary grand finale of UNC’s School of Information and Library Science at 3 p.m. on Sept. 17 in Memorial Hall.